The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-04-28
THEIR HOME LIFE.
DIET AND DOMESTIC HABITS OF
CELEBRATED PEOPLE.

DIET AND DOMESTIC HABITS OF
CELEBRATED PEOPLE.
The Luxurious Home Of the Famous French |
Engineer -Bismarck's Drinking Habits. |
The Emperor Williams Plain Way Of IAv.
ins-The sultan's Favorite Residence.
Count de Lesseps' house in Paris is
filed with objects of art, pictures, rare
pieces of furniture, curious enamels,
wonderful specimens of SAKE and Sevres,
Venetian mirrors and TASKS, Chinese
etageres, Japanese desks, easels, etc.
The large drawing-room is about forty
feet in length and the floor is covered by
Turkish rug. The walls are hung with
rich red figured silk, which throws into
relief the pure white woodwork, deli
cately carved as in the time Louis XIV.
windows and from the ceiling is sus-
pended a colossal crystal chandelier,
the rainbow tints of which are reflected
in the mirrors that multiply the
splendors of this room. Some of the
sofas and chairs are covered with Aubus-
son, others with red satin embroidered
with gold. Three arches, decorated with
acanthus leaves, separate this room from
the second drawing-room. This room is
about twenty-five feet square and be-
tween it's two windows is a branched
candlestick. On high pedestal, covered
with red plush, stand two Cupids OF
Carrara marble; these hold the brass
candlestick, which has forty branches.
Opposite is second candlestick, the
counterpart of the one just described.
Before Louis XVI sofa is table,
which may be better described as small
showcase under it's glass are ancient
snuff-boxe in pearl, tortoise shell, enamel
and gold, fans, crosses, bibelots of every
kind-an historical page Of museum.
THE DAILY WORK OF A QUEEN.
The Queen Regent of Spain is hard
working woman in her dominions. She
rises at seven, and as soon as she has made
her toilet she sends for her little son and
the members of the royal family, and
spends an hour or so with them. At nine
she attends to her household affairs, goes
over her accounts, give her orders for the
day, reads her letters, glances through
the newspapers, and is ready by ten or a
little after to receive the reports of
the captain general of the garrison.
He is succeeded by the prime minis
ter, who has a long interview with
the Queen on affairs of state every
day but Monday, when she presides at
Cabinet council instead. At twelve
o'clock the royal family sit down to
deieuner, at which meal the little King
always assists, though only as a spec
tator, of course. At two one of the
ministers presents himself W it'll the
DEGREES and state papers of different
kinds which await her signature. Twice
a week she holds levee, and it is rarely
over before six. The other days she
takes drive without an escort or any
other show of state. After dinner the
royal party amuse themselves with cards,
or talk literature or art with Count
Morphy, who is an accomplished mu-
sician, and at eleven the Queen retires
to seek the rest to which she is so well
entitled after her fatiguing days work.
BIsMARCK's GRoG.
Bismarck is an enormous eater and
drinker, quaffing great draughts of Bor-
deaux wine and champagne at his meals.
He once said in the Reichstag that the
national drink of the Germans Is the red
wine of France. He Is very hard
worker, his application during office
hours being incessant He rarely rises
, before eleven o'clock in the morning and
loves especially to work late at night, his
mind, he says, being less subject to dis.
fractions and his will being firmer when
the noise of the day is over. He break.
fasts at noon, dimes at seven, and takes
tea at ten; usually with his wife, his
daughter, the Countess Won Rantzau, his
son-in-law, and one or two secretaries
He rarely has any other guests at table
When he is at home Bismarck doffs his
uniform of cavalry general to put on {
long frock coat and huge felt hat
, There is one halter in Bremen who has
: he privilege of making the extraordi
nary hats Of which he is so fond.
DYNAMITE ARTILLERIsT.
Lieutenant Zalinski, whose expert
/ ments with dynamite-throwing gur
and submarine torpedo-boat at Fort
: Lafayette have attracted SO much atten-
tion lately, is a well-built, middle-aged
man, with dark hair just beginning to
show tinge of gray. He makes friend
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) modest manners. In speaking of the
progress in his work by which he has ad
+ vanced from throwing a charge Of fifteen
, pounds of dynamite to distance of hall
+ mile to the throwing of 200 pounds OF
nitro-glycerine to a distance of over 9
mile with safety, he always uses the pro
{ noun we, referring to the workmen who
) assist him. He uses the names of the
/. workmen much more frequently than ht
refers to his own efforts.
THE YILDIz KIOSK.
The favorite residence of the Sultan o.
Turkey is the Yildiz Kiosk, in suburb
of Constantinople. The most striking
feature of the building is the spacious
, audience hall. White marble pillars O
1 exquisite workmanship support th'
! gilded roof; lofty mirrors in gilt frames
. and carved brackets inlaid with mother
of-pearl adorn the walls, while sumptu
! GUS divans covered with the richest ant
y gayest products of the looms of Brouss'
{ invite one to enjoy Eastern luxury
j Sometimes the Sultan will invite a CUES
s to accompany him to one of the small
!; summer houses in the garden, hung will
' pale pink silk, and talk there amidst tn
: perfume of the flowers and the songs o
!. the birds.
g RUSSELL sAGE's FARE.
J, Russell Sage, the notorious magnate o
! | Wall street, retires at ten or half-pas